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บูรณวัฒน์จัดการศึกษา recordings of sounds as possible. These, along with written materials and digitised slides of artefacts, wil be made public in order to draw international recognition to the importance of the displays. As for every collection, master classes and cultural ex- changes wil promote and enhance the importance of the displays. They wish to obtain as much knowledge as possible on original sounds, venues, physical characteristics and composition of artefacts and the spirit of the music in relation to the eras they come from, wishing also to acknowledge the balance between modernity and tradition. Their aim is to modernise the traditional details in ways accessible to a modern public. All Mathayom 5&6 students attended the first session of the seminar. The Thai music stu- dents invited to the second session were given the opportunity to give impromptu thoughts on the importance of Thai music to their lives, both culturally and through the feelings they have when performing. Their impressions of how this music is centred in their soul were extremely well presented. Thank you to Ajarn Sumitra Phongsathorn, Dr Nyle Spoelstra and staff of Silpakorn University for arranging this seminar, a part of a larger and very important Smithsonian research trip, to be held at Mater Dei School. Thank you to the Smithsonian experts for their fascinating presentation. 24 Mater Dei News ฉบับที่ 50 ปีที่ 13 ปีการศึกษา 2559